WTMJ-AM (620) will air a one-hour tribute to the late Jim Irwin, longtime radio voice of the Green Bay Packers, at 9 a.m. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.

It will be followed by Irwin and broadcast partner Max McGee's call of the Jan. 8, 1994, wild card game against the Detroit Lions at 10 a.m.

Irwin died of cancer on Jan. 22, 2012. For more than 30 years, he called 612 consecutive Packers games, including preseason and playoffs, before retiring after the 1998 season.

He and partner Max McGee, who worked with him for 20 years, "became synonymous with Packers football," according to the obituary written by Gary D'Amato. In the game being aired the Packers won on a last minute Brett Favre to Sterling Sharpe touchdown.

Irwin's wife and family will be listening to a webcast of the programs in California.

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